JPH0830426A - Data processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a data processor which can refer to desired data immediately. CONSTITUTION:A folder B holding icons (D and E) for referring to at least one data in a hyperstructure data group is provided, and the folder B is displayed together with the icons (D and E) (A). The hyperstructure data group is retrieved on retrieval conditions (B) that a data type is a document and a modification date is after Jan. 1, 1993. Icons for referring to data meeting the retrieval conditions are held in the folder B and the icons held in the folder B are displayed. Further, retrieval conditions for retrieving data generated by a generating operator can be added by inputting the generating operator newly.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data processing device, and more particularly to a plurality of data holding as reference data at least one of data for referring to upper data and data for referring to lower data. The present invention relates to a data processing device which provides a folder for holding an icon for referencing at least one data of a data group consisting of, displays the folder together with the icon, and performs data processing according to the selected icon.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a network-like data structure (hereinafter referred to as a hyper-structured data group) as shown in FIG. 12 has been formed to store data. There is. For example, the data B in FIG. 12 is referred to by the data A as the upper data (hereinafter referred to as a link), and the data D and E are linked as the lower data. Such data types include documents, figures, tables, graphs and the like. Here, for example, the data B is document data, and the data D and the data E are
Is the figure data, the document B (data B) is the figure D.
(Data D) and FIG. E (Data E) are linked to form a compound document. By freely linking and storing data in this way, it becomes possible to display or output other data related to one data at high speed.

Further, there have been proposed a number of data processing devices capable of instructing various icons (moving / copying / starting, etc.) on the icons by displaying the hyperstructured data as icons.

In view of the limitation of the number of icons that can be displayed on the screen at one time, data is collectively linked to virtual data generally called a folder, and the folder is displayed as one icon. An information processing apparatus has been proposed in which, when viewing data linked in a folder, the folder is opened and displayed in a superimposed manner on a screen. This will be described with reference to FIG. 13 in which the hyper data structure of FIG. 12 is displayed as an icon on the screen of a display device or the like.

The data A in the above-mentioned hyper data structure is virtual data (surrounding quadrangle) representing a screen. The data linked to this data A includes data B, C, F, and G. Therefore, first, on the initial screen of the display device or the like, as shown in FIG. 13A, the data B, C, F, and G linked to the data A are displayed. Each of the data B, C, F and G corresponds to a folder. Then, for example, when the folder B is opened, as shown in FIG. 13B, the data D and E linked to the folder B are displayed so that they can be linked.

Here, for example, even if the operator wants to display the data E for editing or the like, the operator asks where the data E is linked on the initial screen (FIG. 13A) of the display device or the like. Can't recognize. FIG.
Only by opening the folder B and displaying the contents, as shown in (B), the operator remembers that the data E is linked to the folder B. Therefore, there is a problem that the operator has to remember where the data E is linked.

In view of such a point, an object search object sheet for inputting a search request for an object such as a document is displayed, and a desired object name is input at a predetermined position of the displayed object search object sheet and input. An apparatus has been proposed that searches for a desired object that has been searched for and displays the storage location information of the searched object (information indicating which folder the object is linked to) on the object search object sheet (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Hei 10 (1999) -135242). 3-38776).

However, in this apparatus, when the operator actually wants to use the data, the folder is opened and the data is visually opened based on the storage position information of the desired object which is searched and displayed on the object search object sheet. I have to search. Therefore, this device has a problem that it is inconvenient to use and, even when it is desired to newly use desired data, if this position information is not stored, the search process must be performed again.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a data processing apparatus which can immediately refer to desired data.

[0010]

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 holds a plurality of data for holding at least one of data for referring to upper data and data for referencing lower data as reference data. A data processing device that provides a folder for holding an icon for referencing at least one data of a data group consisting of the data, displays the folder together with the icon, and performs data processing according to the selected icon, Data search means for searching the data group based on a predetermined search condition, icon holding means for holding an icon for referring to the searched data in the folder, and displaying an icon held in the folder And a display means.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the invention, a search condition storage unit is further provided for storing a search condition for searching the data group by the data search unit.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect of the present invention, the data retrieval means further comprises retrieval condition modification means for modifying the retrieval condition for retrieving the data group.

The invention according to claim 4 is the invention according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising an icon deleting means for deleting the icon held in the folder.

[0014]

According to the first aspect of the invention, at least one data of a data group consisting of a plurality of data holding at least one of data for referring to upper data and data for referring to lower data as reference data. A folder for holding an icon for referring to is provided, the folder is displayed together with the icon, and data processing is performed according to the selected icon.

Further, in the present invention, the data search means is
The data group is searched based on a predetermined search condition, and the icon holding unit holds a folder with an icon for referring to the data searched by the data searching unit. Then, the display means displays the icon held in the folder.

As described above, since the icon for referring to the retrieved data is held in the folder and the held icon is displayed, the retrieved data can be referred to based on the displayed icon. Therefore, desired data can be referred to immediately.

Further, since the icon for referring to the data retrieved based on the predetermined retrieval condition is held in the folder, the retrieved data can be reused.

Here, in the invention described in claim 2, the search condition storage means further provided in the invention described in claim 1 stores the search condition for searching the data group by the data search means.

As described above, since the search condition for searching the data group is stored, the stored search condition is used to
Since the data can be searched, when the data is newly created, the saved search conditions can be searched.

According to a third aspect of the invention, the search condition correction means further provided in the first or second aspect of the invention is:
A predetermined search condition for searching the data group by the data search means is modified.

As described above, since the predetermined search condition for searching the data group is corrected, the data referred to based on the icon held in the folder can be searched again with the corrected search condition. Therefore, it is possible to retrieve the retrieved data based on the retrieval condition similar to the retrieval condition already retrieved.

According to the invention of claim 4, the icon deleting means further provided in the invention of any one of claims 1 to 3 deletes the reference data held in the folder.

As described above, since the icons held in the folder are deleted, the unnecessary icons can be collectively deleted.

[0024]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 1, the data processing apparatus according to the present embodiment includes a CPU 10 that controls the entire data processing apparatus,
A main storage device 12 including a work area for various processes that stores programs related to control processing of the CPU 10 and the like is provided. The data processing apparatus also includes an instruction device 14 such as a mouse and an input device 16 such as a keyboard for inputting commands and text data. Further, the present data processing device is provided with a display device 18 such as a bit map display, and an auxiliary storage device 20 such as a magnetic disk or an optical disk, the contents of which are saved even when the power is turned off. Note that these various constituent elements are electrically connected by a bus 22.

As shown in FIG. 2, the auxiliary storage device 20 is provided with a program area 20a which is an area for storing various programs. In the program area 20a, an area 20a1 that stores a data search program that is a program for searching data, and an area 20a2 that stores a search data link program that is a program for linking the data searched by the data search program to a folder. Is provided. Further, in the program area 20a, an area 20a3 for storing an icon display program which is a program for displaying a list of data linked in the folder in the form of icons, and for canceling the link of all the data in the folder Area 2 for storing the search data link release program that is a program
0a4 is provided.

Further, the auxiliary storage device 20 is provided with an area 20b for storing a data management file for managing data in the data processing device. As shown in FIG. 3, the data management file includes, for each data, a data identifier for identifying the data, attribute data serving as search key information (a data type indicating the type of data such as text / graphic / image / document, Icon shape, icon size,
(Data creation date, data creator, other attribute information, etc.), storage location information that is location information in the auxiliary storage device 20 in which the data is stored, and the like.

Further, the auxiliary storage device 20 (see FIG. 2) has a data file 2 which is an area for storing data itself.
0c is provided. Here, each of the data A to I shown in FIG. 12 includes a data management file that manages the above-described data and a media file that is the content of the data. The media file is composed of text data, vector data, image data, audio data, moving image data, etc., and the data is formed as documents, figures, tables, graphs and the like. Each data is stored in the data file 20C in a format corresponding to the data type.

The data file 20c further includes the data shown in FIG.
As shown in, an area 20C1 for storing folder data of a folder (virtual data) to which data is linked is provided. The folder data includes the screen size of the folder when the folder is opened and the data management file 20
A search condition corresponding to the attribute data in b and a valid / invalid code indicating whether or not to use the search condition item are added. In addition, the number of pieces of data to be linked in the folder and link information equal to or less than the number of pieces of data are stored. The link information includes an identifier of data to be linked, an icon shape, coordinate information used when displayed on a folder, and attribute information such as a linked date.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. If, for example, folder B is selected on the instruction device 14 from the initial screen of the display device 18, the display device 1
The screen of No. 8 is displayed as shown in FIG. And
When the search button 32 on the screen displaying the folder B is selected by the pointing device 14, step 10 in FIG.
At 2, the search panel (see FIG. 6B) is displayed. In step 104, the folder data is displayed. That is,
Items that are valid codes in the search conditions of folder data (see FIG. 4) are displayed. Thereby, the display device 18
On the screen, for example, as shown in FIG. 6B, items for which the search is valid (data type, change date and time) are displayed.

In step 106, a command reception is waited. Here, the command is a short area E next to the search condition.
1 and E2 (see FIG. 6B) to be input by the input device (keyboard) 16, and any of the buttons (condition button 34, search button 36, close button) on the upper part of the panel of FIG. 6B. 38) is selected by a mouse or the like.

At step 108, command analysis is performed.
When data is input from the input device to the rectangular areas E1 and E2, it is regarded as a condition input, and in step 110,
Search condition setting processing is performed. That is, the item to be changed is instructed by the instructing device 14, for example, the date and time of the change is instructed, and the rectangular area E2 is “≧ 19 by the input device 16.
93.1.1 ”was replaced with“ ≧ 1991.1.
If the input is “1”, the “document whose modification date and time was modified after January 1, 1991” in FIG. 5B is set as the search condition. And step 1
Return to 06.

When the condition button 34 is selected, a condition item selection process is performed in step 112. That is, when the condition button 34 is selected, menus M1 to M6 of search condition items are displayed as shown in FIG. Then, when a condition item (for example, creator M5) is instructed by the instruction device 14 from the menus M1 to M6, the menus M1 to M6 disappear, and in step 114, the selected condition item (see FIG. 6C). In the example, the valid / invalid code of the creator M5) is checked, and if valid, in step 116,
Perform invalidation processing to invalidate what is valid,
If it is invalid, a validation process is performed in step 118 to validate the invalid one, and the process returns to step 106 together.

When the search button 36 is selected, step 12
At 0, link release processing is performed to release all links of data in the current folder (folder B in the example of FIG. 6). In the link release processing (see FIG. 7), first, step 1
At 34, the number of links of the folder data 20c1 (see FIG. 4) is set to 0, and at step 136, all the link data are deleted. Then, in step 138, the folder data (in this case, the folder size, the search condition, the number of links (0)) is stored in the auxiliary storage device 20, and the process ends.

In the next step 122 (see FIG. 5), a search process is performed. In the search process (see FIG. 8), first, in step 142, the data management file 20b is opened, in step 144, the variable i for counting the data in the data management file 20b is initialized, and in step 146,
Increment the variable i. In step 148, the i-th attribute data is compared with the search condition, and step 150
Then, it is determined whether or not the i-th attribute data satisfies the search condition. If the search condition is satisfied, the data identifier and the icon shape / size in the data management file 20b are stored in the search result data storage area shown in FIG. Store in (work memory). On the other hand, if the i-th attribute data does not satisfy the search condition, the process proceeds to step 154. In step 154, it is determined whether or not the variable i is the total number of data I or more, so that there is no remaining data. It is determined whether or not there is a remaining portion (when i is smaller than I), the process returns to step 146, and the above processing (steps 146 to 154) is performed. On the other hand, if there is no remaining data (i
Is greater than or equal to I), the data management file 20b is closed in step 156, and the processing ends.

In the next step 124 (see FIG. 5), search result link processing is performed. In the search result link processing (see FIG. 10), first, in step 162, the icon position of data satisfying the search condition to be displayed in the folder, for example, in the folder B as shown in FIG. 6A is calculated. Initialize the work variables for That is, folder B
The variable x of the coordinate (x, y) in the inside is set to x = 0, and the variable y
Is set to y = 0. In step 164, a variable j for counting the data satisfying the above-mentioned search condition (data stored in the search result data storage area shown in FIG. 9) is initialized (j = 0), and in step 166, the variable j Increment j. In step 168, the data identifier and icon shape of the j-th data are stored in the folder data (see FIG. 4). As a result, the jth data is linked to the folder data.

In step 170, coordinate data is calculated from the folder size of the folder data and the j-th icon size and stored in the folder data. That is, based on the width of the folder size and the icon size of the data at the highest position (the value of y is the smallest) of the data already linked to the folder, the coordinate data of the jth data (height (y) , Width (x) are adjusted, and the adjusted coordinate data is stored in the folder data. Then, in step 172, it is determined whether or not all the search data has been processed. If there is any remaining data, the process returns to step 166, the above processing (steps 166 to 172) is repeated, and the processing of all search data ends. If yes, this process ends.

At the next step 126 (see FIG. 5), icon display processing is performed. Icon display processing (see Figure 11)
First, in step 192, a variable k for counting the data in the folder (data satisfying the search condition) is initialized, and in step 194, the variable k is incremented.
In step 196, the icon shape of the kth data is displayed at the coordinate position indicated by the coordinate information. In step 198,
It is determined whether or not all the data has been processed, and if there is a remaining data, the process returns to step 194 and the above processing (step 1
94-step 198) is performed, and if there is no remaining, the process is terminated.

Then, the process returns to step 106. If it is determined in step 108 that the close button 38 has been selected, in step 128 the folder data is stored in the auxiliary storage device 20, the search panel is erased, and the process ends.

As described above, in the present embodiment, since the data that satisfies the search condition linked in the folder is displayed as an icon, desired data (data that satisfies the search condition) is referred to based on the displayed icon. Therefore, desired data can be referred to immediately.

Since the data identifier and the icon shape of the data satisfying the search condition are stored in the folder data, the data satisfying the search condition can be reused.

In the embodiment described above, the search condition may be stored. Thereby, since the data can be searched for by using the saved search condition, the newly created data can be searched by the saved search condition.

Further, the search condition may be modified. As a result, the data stored in the folder data can be searched again with the modified search conditions, and the searched data group can be searched based on the search conditions similar to the search conditions already searched. It will be possible.

Further, the icon of the data that satisfies the search condition linked in the folder may be deleted. This makes it possible to delete unnecessary icons in a batch.

[0044]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the invention, the icon for referencing the retrieved data is held in the folder, and the icon held in the folder is displayed. Since it is possible to refer to the data retrieved based on the icon, it is possible to immediately refer to the desired data.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the search condition for searching the data group is saved, the data can be searched using the saved search condition. Therefore, when the data is newly created. In addition, there is an effect that a search can be performed with the saved search condition.

According to the third aspect of the invention, since the predetermined search condition for searching the data group is modified, the data referred to based on the icon held in the folder is
It is possible to perform the search again with the modified search condition, and it is possible to search the data searched based on the search condition similar to the already searched search condition.

The invention according to claim 4 has an effect that since the icons held in the folder are deleted, the unnecessary icons can be collectively deleted.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a data processing device according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is an example of a data configuration in an auxiliary storage device.

FIG. 3 is a configuration example of a data management file.

FIG. 4 is a configuration example of folder data.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing a main routine of a condition search of the present embodiment and a process of displaying data satisfying the search condition.

FIG. 6 is a display example when a folder is opened.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a subroutine of processing for releasing a link in a folder.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a subroutine of search processing.

FIG. 9 is a configuration example of data stored in a search result data storage area.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a subroutine of processing for linking a search result to a folder.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing a subroutine of a process of displaying linked icons in a folder as icons.

FIG. 12 is an example of hyper-structured data.

FIG. 13 is an example of displaying hyper-structured data with icons.

[Explanation of symbols]

 20 auxiliary storage device 20b data management file 20c data file 20c1 folder data

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An icon for referring to at least one data of a data group composed of a plurality of data holding at least one of data for referring to upper data and data for referring to lower data as reference data. A data processing device that provides a folder for holding, displays the folder together with the icon, and performs data processing according to the selected icon, and a data search unit that searches the data group based on a predetermined search condition, A data processing device comprising: an icon holding unit that holds an icon for referring to the searched data in the folder; and a display unit that displays the icon held in the folder. 2. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising search condition storage means for storing search conditions for searching the data group by the data search means. 3. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a search condition correction unit that corrects a search condition for searching the data group by the data search unit. 4. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an icon deleting unit that deletes an icon held in the folder.